CHINA cheated at the Fiba game. China cheated with the connivance of Fiba, that too was clear as day. Never mind that the Chinese were 6’8″, we were not badly off in that department. We’d just beaten the Iranians, just as tall, but with manners.
It was that eight times at least the Chinese blocked a throw. This is fine. But the two Chinese referees chose to ignore them rather than give the Philippines two free throws for every foul by China. That’s 16 points right there. To be sure, the Philippines missed 11 free throws. They’d have handily sunk them but for the maniacally howling Chinese.
Even our Australian coach told our players don’t bother with inside shots, take them outside. Yet, even those were blocked illegally.
Home-court advantage is fine but rigging the bus taking the players to the game, stealing the tickets for coaches and staff, scalping them? Hey, I know the Chinese are business-minded but that’s fencing and woe, low.
To be sure, low is western allies giving Mindanao to Malaysia after forging a request for a Muslim homeland and mailing it to themselves, this on top of dropping our Sabah claim.
Chinese were not that low but came close. Picking two Chinese when international rules ban referees from competing countries, now that’s a new low. To be sure, bribing world sports organizations is now the rule rather than an objection, after Fifa sold the next games to Russia. On the other hand, our players scratched their balls and Chinese referees blew their whistles so hard that if they gave blow jobs they’d blow the tops off their clients’ heads.
This is worse than game fixing, which is discreet. And the loser goes away with money, like Filipinos signing up for the Bangsamoro basic law (BBL), for a share of the $500 million, still missing from the Malaysian PM’s $1.2-billion stash. But doing it au naturelle out in the open for the cheated to see it being done to them, that pierces the envelope of kababuyan.
Now there are many ways to deal with China on the South China Sea dispute, but two things are out of the question. One is fighting China to protect the freedom of navigation of allies who sold us downriver in the BBL they forged. The other is sitting down with China to talk at all. They will turn off the microphones and lip sync our “yes” to their demands in the officially released veedeeyoooo. Keep well.
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BTW aren’t you Teddy Locsin – Chinese as well. What about the Chinese-Filipinos who exploit their country men. What are you doing about it, rather than just blabbing out eloquent phrases which you learnt in the U.S.